[Nut-upsdev] NUT release plans (post-2.4.1): ChangeLog format

[Charles Lepple]

On Feb 8, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Charles Lepple wrote:

> On Feb 8, 2010, at 9:21 AM, Arnaud Quette wrote:
>
>>>>> I also need to search back and see when we actually stopped adding
>>>>> ChangeLog entries, and merge as appropriate.
>>>>
>>>> r1018 "fix some separators"
>>>> (starting on the 6th July 2007)
>>>
>>> Hmm... that's a lot more merging than I thought. Through about  
>>> October 2009,
>>> we were pretty consistent with ChangeLog entries.
>>
>> yup, the other solution being to only dig up from r2117 (ChangeLog
>> updates stopped at r2116), and concatenate the current ChangeLog with
>> that.
>> But this implies to adapt the xsl to output something coherent.
>
> Since the ChangeLog isn't designed to be machine-parseable anyway, I  
> am thinking that we just combine them from that point. (svn2cl can  
> easily convert just a selected range from the history.)

See http://boxster.ghz.cc/projects/nut/changeset/2332 for the full  
details.